There are no mufflers or flash suppressors these days, so the blunderbuss makes quite a lot of noise when it is fired.
Every time a musket is fired, there will always be a huge sound and accompanying white smoke. Relatively speaking, the muzzle flash is not that much that cannot be seen in broad daylight.
Therefore, it is difficult for the musketeers who use fire guns to maintain concealment during combat. No matter how secretly you hide, the moment you fire, you are directly telling the enemy your location.
When Ying Tianhu heard the intensive gunfire, he immediately looked to the left following the source of the sound. In his sight was a low hillside, and behind the hillside stood rows of dense musketeers.
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Puppet Tang thief army!
There is no doubt that these people are the gunmen of the puppet Tang thief army that they have been chasing hard for the past two days!
Ying Tianhu didn't have time to think, he just shouted: "Everyone get down, anyone who doesn't want to die will get down for me!"
This lying down does not mean that you have to surrender if you can't beat them, but to avoid the bullets of the puppet Tang rebels!
In fact, there was no need to shout in response to Tianhu, the more than a hundred Ming troops had already fallen in response after the gunshots!
Of course, this response was definitely not because the bullets from the traitor army hit them all, but because they actively lay down to avoid the bullets.
After lying down, Ying Tianhu looked up and saw that the gunman of the pseudo-Tang thief on the left was about seventy steps away from them. This seventy steps was actually quite a long distance for the two armies to fight.
Even the archers couldn't play much of a role at this distance, but Ying Tianhu still wasn't careless at all.
He knew very well that at this distance, even if he and a few soldiers wore armor and stomach, it was very likely that a big hole would be punched out.
He had fought many times with the puppet army of the Tang Dynasty, but he knew very well that the long-fire blunderbuss in the hands of the puppet army of the Tang Dynasty could hit very far and be very powerful.
Not only Ying Tianhu knew it, but other Ming army soldiers also knew it.
As a Ming army that had fought against the puppet Tang rebels many times, Tong'an Qianhu could be said to be the Ming army that knew the puppet Tang rebels best.
Tong'an Qianhu Station fought many times with the puppet Tang bandit army, and there were victories and defeats. During this process, the Ming army officers and soldiers at Tong'an Qianhu Station also had a little understanding of the various tactics of the puppet Tang bandit army.
First of all, we know that these pseudo-Tang rebels are all very thieves. They will escape at the slightest sign of trouble, and they can escape very quickly.
The Ming army will never be given a chance to fight head-on!
Secondly, these puppet Tang rebels especially like to lay ambushes and attack small-scale troops of the Ming army. Last time, the Ming army's grain transport team was attacked many times by the puppet Tang rebels, causing considerable losses.
Moreover, there are dozens of armor-piercing and ruthless bandits in this pseudo-Tang thief army, and every one of them is fearless of death. From last year to now, the Ming army has suffered losses at the hands of these dozens of ruthless bandits several times.
However, the above are still within the understanding of the generals of the Ming army. Even if the puppet army of the Tang Dynasty is very ruthless, even if the army of the puppet Tang Dynasty has dozens of armored bandits, these are nothing to the generals of the Ming army.
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But those long-fire blunderbuss of the puppet Tang thief army left the Ming army quite helpless!
The Ming army came into contact with the gunmen of the puppet Tang rebel army on a large scale when they went into the mountains for encirclement and suppression at the beginning of the year. Several grain transport teams were destroyed because they were defeated by these gunmen.
Later, when the top brass of the Ming army secretly investigated when Longhua Town was breached, they also learned that the puppet Tang rebels at that time used firecrackers to shoot from a hundred steps away to defeat the morale of the young men who defended the city.
After Fengjiazhuang was breached two days ago, the remaining people from Fengjiazhuang also found the Ming army generals and trumpeted the power of the puppet Tang rebel army's cannons.
Not only can it be fired from a hundred steps away, but it is also extremely powerful!
In this way, it would be difficult for the local Ming army not to be impressed by Huo Gun.
Now that they knew that the puppet Tang rebels had a large number of gunmen, the generals of the Ming army, including Ying Tianhu, would naturally think of ways to deal with these gunmen of the puppet Tang rebels.
They have come up with many methods, such as wearing thicker cotton armor to resist bullets. It has to be said that this method is actually effective. Although the defense effect against cold weapons such as spears is very average, it is not effective against bullets.
The defense still has a certain use, at least the defense against the firecrackers equipped by the Ming army is quite effective.
The New Army of the Tang Dynasty also captured a lot of this kind of cotton armor at the beginning. However, the Ming army that the New Army of the Tang Dynasty faced mainly used cold weapons. In order to strengthen the defense effect against cold weapons, the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty conducted a series of inspections of cotton armor captured from the Ming army.
The armor was modified and iron sheets were added to the inner lining to increase the defensive effect against cold weapons, making it a relatively primitive cloth-covered armor and cotton armor.
But Ying Tianhu and the others also knew that even thickened cotton armor was unreliable against the long-fire blunderbuss used by the puppet Tang rebels. It was fine at medium and long distances, but once they got within fifty steps, they would be unreliable.
It's enough. If the distance is within thirty or forty steps, it's still one hole at a time.
You must know that what Li Xuan created was not the small-caliber bird gun that existed in history. The bird gun in history and the Japanese iron cannons of the same period generally had a caliber between nine and eleven millimeters. In matchlocks and even
In the era of flintlock muskets, they were all very typical small-caliber muskets. They were characterized by relatively high muzzle velocity and long range, but their power was quite meager.
The Mustec matchlock used by the Spanish musketeers at the same period had a caliber as high as 20 millimeters and was powerful enough to penetrate two millimeters of plate armor at a distance of 100 meters. In the face of this kind of musket, no matter the Western
Both the plate-armored knights and the Eastern heavy infantry wearing three layers of heavy armor had to kneel down.
At the same time, plate armor commonly equipped in the West promoted the popularization of large-caliber muskets, and the popularity of large-caliber muskets made plate armor gradually withdraw from the stage of history, allowing musketeers to finally unify the battlefield.
When it came to the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan naturally didn't know much about the development of muskets in history. He only knew about matchlocks and flintlock guns. When he started working on matchlocks last year, he didn't have strict settings at the beginning.
What caliber, weight, length, etc. are required.
His request was very practical, that is, it could effectively penetrate the cotton armor that was commonly used by the Ming army at a medium distance. It was under this premise that the final caliber and barrel length were determined.
The last many reasons were to determine the final data for the muskets of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, such as length and weight and the most important caliber: four and a half minutes, which is about fourteen millimeters.
This caliber is a medium caliber among early muskets. Its power is somewhat inferior to the large-caliber muskets of more than 20 mm in the West, but it is much stronger than the small-caliber muskets of about 10 mm.
Facing the medium-caliber muskets of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, not to mention these cotton armors, even the cavalry breastplates whose protection level has reached its peak in modern times cannot stop them.
Ying Tianhu and the others are well aware of this, so one of his soldiers died under this kind of fire. As a soldier, he is naturally well-equipped, wearing cotton armor and a layer of outer layer.
Iron armor, this level of defense can be said to have reached its peak for the Ming army.
Warriors with double armor are often the most elite soldiers these days, and it is easy to charge into battle, but this private soldier was killed when he was still forty steps away from the puppet Tang traitor army.
From then on, Ying Tianhu knew that when facing the gunfire of the puppet Tang rebel army, he would either rely on the number of people to rush forward in a swarm and fight while they were unable to reload, or he would lie down to avoid the bullets.
Now, his choice is to lie down and avoid bullets!
The opponent has 70 or 80 musketeers. It's really unknown whether the hundreds of people of my own can rush through!
In fact, if Ying Tianhu chose to charge, he would definitely end up miserable!
Without the cover of a large number of archers, if Ying Tianhu led the charge directly, the musketeers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty would dare to let Ying Tianhu and the others rush to a distance of twenty meters or even more than ten meters, and then fire a volley!
After a close-range salvo, Wang Shanxu will lead the musketeers to launch a bayonet charge. It is very likely that more than half of these Ming soldiers will be killed or injured on the spot. Under such circumstances, if these Ming soldiers under Ying Tianhu do not collapse, these Ming soldiers will
The Ming army is no longer the Ming army, but aliens.
Because most of Li Xuan's understanding of the tactics of the musketeers came from later film and television dramas, especially those British lobster soldiers wearing red robes, this led to the fact that the Tang Dynasty musketeers trained by Li Xuan can be regarded as British to a certain extent.
A replica of the Lobster Soldier.
And how did the British lobster soldiers fight?
To put it simply, they have only one purpose when fighting, and that is to never fire the first shot!
Therefore, in countless battle cases, you can see those seemingly rigid British lobster soldiers walking slowly to the muzzle of someone's gun during the Grenadier March, without caring that the other party's bullet hit their comrades and sprayed them in the face.
Blood.
He would not raise his gun to shoot until he was twenty or thirty meters in front of someone.
And in most cases, they only fire one shot, because after their salvo, most of the opponents have suffered heavy casualties, and then they will directly launch a bayonet charge and directly defeat the opponent with bayonet melee combat.
Watching them fight is like watching them drink afternoon tea. It's so relaxing and leisurely. Compared with the armies of other countries who fight and shout to kill, it's like heaven and earth.
Of course, it doesn't mean that they are very good when they fight like this. Many times they will be beaten to the point of running away, but they don't take it seriously and insist on fighting like this from beginning to end.
Today's new army of the Tang Dynasty, under the training of Li Xuan, also focuses on training on the two points of twenty-meter volley shooting and bayonet charge.
Therefore, what these two musketry teams of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty are actually good at is not multi-row shooting at medium and long distances, but volleys and bayonet charges at close range!
Ying Tianhu was afraid of death, so he immediately asked the soldiers to lie down and take shelter instead of directly leading people to rush forward. It can be said that he directly saved his own life and the lives of these Ming army soldiers.
After the gunfire from the opposite side stopped, the white smoke dissipated, and after confirming that the musketeers had run several hundred meters away, Ying Tianhu stood up, and then drew out his sword: "Kill!"
After shouting various slogans and chasing for dozens of meters, he stopped and immediately sent someone to report to Diao Leixun in the rear: His subordinates were ambushed by the rebels, and he personally led the troops to fight back. After a long battle, the rebels could not